Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I think if you factor in the story he probably makes it over a guy like Hovan, but I kind of went more from a performance perspective. Herzy was a beast his junior season, and a real class act for sticking around for his senior year, but it's hard to shake watching him as a shell of himself his senior season after his illness.

Edit* You know what you're right. I forgot how beastly Herzy's season was in 2007 as well.

I can buy both Hart and Edwards over Denard, but not Chad Henne. Denard had a huge impact on Michigan football, bigger than the team's record during his tenure. Denard held all of these records at one point: Only 1500/1500 season (NCAA)*, most rushing yards by a quarterback in a career (NCAA), most rushing yards by a quarterback in a season (FBS)*, and most 200/200 games (FBS).

*Jordan Lynch would become the second 1500/1500 player in NCAA history and also break Denard's single season record two years later.

He also holds a handful of B1G and Michigan records: Career rushing by a QB (B1G), single-season rushing by a QB (B1G), single-game rushing by a QB (B1G), single-season total offense (B1G), total offense - career (U-M), total offense - single game (U-M), 200 rushing yard games (U-M), yards per carry (U-M).